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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Two Challenge Birthday

The colors are not as bright as I normally use for birthday cards but I wanted to use the Well Worn designer paper so I based my colors around that. The card base is Cajun Craze card stock. I added two strips of the designer paper to a piece of River Rock card stock. The "lace" on my card is a piece of the Chantilly Crochet Trim that I dyed

using Not Quite Navy ink refill mixed with water. After letting it dry I tied a bow and attached it to the River Rock card stock. One tail of the bow was snipped close to the knot so it wouldn't dangle. I added Early Espresso, So Saffron and Cajun Craze brads on two corners and attached this layer to the card

front. The image from the Just Believe stamp set was stamped on Naturals Ivory card stock with So Saffron, Cajun Craze and Early Espresso inks. The So Saffron and Cajun Craze were stamped off on scrap paper before stamping on the ivory card stock. Three flowers were punched out of So Saffron and Cajun Craze card stock using the flower punch in the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack. Brads were added to the center and the flowers attached to the image with glue dots. I punched the top of the image with the Decorative Label Punch and matted this layer with Early Espresso card stock that was also punched at the top with the same punch. I popped this layer up on the card with dimensionals. The sentiment from the Petite Pairs stamp set was stamped on Naturals Ivory card stock with Not Quite Navy ink. The bottom edge was punched the same as the image using the Decorative Label punch. This was added below the image with dimensionals. After photographing the card, I wish I had matted the sentiment layer also but opted to leave as is because I don't have much luck trying to remove something without tearing or crinkling the card stock. Something to remember for next time. Hope your day is going as you would like. Enjoy and try to find some time to be creative.

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